A local geoscientist, Dr. Paul Millsteed, has developed a new exploration technique using soil analysis that he believes could lead to the discovery of more Broken Hill-type mineral deposits in the Broken Hill district and beyond. The technique involves analyzing soils for microscopic iodine and bromine-bearing minerals, which can indicate the presence of underground metal sulfide orebodies similar to Broken Hill's zinc-lead-silver deposit. Dr. Millsteed has tested the technique on soils near known deposits in Broken Hill and found high levels of halogens, particularly iodine, that are directly linked to the orebodies. He is promoting this technique as a cheaper way to explore for ores than existing methods.

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New clue to lodeBy Andrew Robertson
A local geoscientist believes
a new exploration technique
he’s developed could lead to the
discovery of more Broken Hill-
type deposits in the district and
beyond.
Dr Paul Millsteed has already
spoken to a number of local min-
ing companies about the technique
which he developed after discov-
ering a suite of microscopic crys-
talline iodine and bromine-bearing
minerals directly linked to Broken
Hill-type ores.
The presence of iodine and bro-
mine in subsurface soil indicates
the possible existence of a metal
sulfide orebody - like the 300 mil-
lion tonne zinc, lead and silver
deposit still being mined under the
city today.
Dr Millsteed made the discov-
ery during his PhD studies at the
Australian National University in
Canberra.
He recently presented his find-
ings to the Society of Economic
Geologists annual conference in
Hobart, which was attended by
more than 740 geoscientists from
44 countries.
To test his theory, he carried out
specialised soil analyses adjacent
to the line of lode with the support
of ALS Laboratories in Perth.
Hefoundthatthesoilsadjacentto
exposed gossan (the dark-coloured
rocky outcrop of the ore deposit)
contained abundant amounts of the
halogens, especially iodine.
Several soils from the surround-
ing district were also analysed to
determine the relative background
amounts of halogens contained in
them.
“The halogen anomalies are
directly linked to the halogen-rich
sulfide orebody through leakage
and secondary enrichment,” Dr
Millsteed explained.
Most of the iodine measured in
the soils is referred to as Iodine
127, and linked to the formation
of the local orebodies over 1.69
billion years ago.
Fellow local exploration geosci-
entist Wolfgang Leyh is an enthu-
siastic supporter of the technique
which, according to Dr Millsteed,
is a cheaper and less invasive way
of finding orebodies than more
widely-used methods.
He said it could breathe new life
into the search for mineral deposits
in the district.
“If you’ve got an ore body buried
deep how are you going to find it?
“We’ve got something we can
use to find another orebody.”
Itcouldalso,hesaid,beemployed
in other areas of Australia and the
world where Broken Hill-type ore-
bodies existed.
Broken Hill-born Dr Millsteed
obtained his first job in the
city with Minerals Mining and
Metallurgy, working as a train-
ee geologist before moving over
to CRA Exploration and then to
the geological survey of NSW
Department of Mineral Resources.
He spent 27 years in the ACT
where he worked for the University
of Canberra but returned to his
hometown a couple of years ago,
taking up a job as an exploration
geologist with CBH Resources.
Shortly after, CBH cut its local
workforce along with its explo-
ration budget. Since then he has
been consulting for a number of
companies on exploration projects
around the district.
Continued Page 3
Soil key to riches,
says BH geologist
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Dr Millsteed said he has spo-
ken to a number of mining com-
panies about his technique and,
while there has been some inter-
est, there appeared to be little
appetite for exploration.
“Everybody’s just sitting back,
not doing anything.”
The city was also at a low point
but Dr Millsteed said that could
all change in an instant with a
big find.
Dr Paul Millsteed at the Society of Economic Geologists annual conference in Hobart recent-
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Soil key to riches,
says BH geologist
“If we make a discovery with
this technique ... it will lift our
town out of the doldrums.”
The geoscientist even nomi-
nated the area that he believes
has the most potential in terms
of delivering the next big deposit
that has so far proven so elusive.
“I think Mundi Mundi
Plains and adjacent to the
Umberumberka mine is where
we are have a good chance to
find a significant ore body.”
Dr Millsteed said he was will-
ing to discuss his technique with
exploration companies looking
for Broken Hill-type orebodies in
the district, and can be contacted
on 0437 654 223.
If we make a discov-
ery with this technique
... it will lift our town
out of the doldrums
’
‘
Tackling
service
delivery
By Erica Visser
City Council could
share services with
seven other outback
councils under pro-
posals discussed by
a new advisory com-
mittee.
The Far West
Initiative met for the
first time last week after
having been formed to
tackle problems involv-
ing service delivery at a
local government level.
It encompasses
eight remote coun-
cils - Broken Hill,
Central Darling Shire,
Balranald, Bourke,
Brewarrina, Cobar,
Walgett and Wentworth
- as well as the
Unincorporated Area.
C o m m i t t e e
Chairman, John
Williams, has been
appointed for a three-
year term during which
he hopes to make exten-
sive changes to the day-
to-day operations of the
councils, which have
historically delivered
services independently
of one another.
“I’m hoping at
the end of this we’ve
improved the lives of
people who live in these
communities,” the for-
mer local State MP said
yesterday.
“There’s been a fair
bit of criticism, proba-
bly not as focussed in
Broken Hill as it is in
the small communities,
about the amount of
service duplications and
the lack of outcomes.”
Mr Williams said one
way of improving effi-
ciency was for the eight
councils to share com-
mon service providers.
“What we are focus-
ing on primarily is how
we can do things col-
lectively among eight
shires...joining together
to reduce costs of run-
ning local government.
“You would have one
professional service
provider with data from
all those shires going
into the one agency.
“There have been a
lot of problems attract-
ing accountants to shire
areas. If there was pro-
fessional advice coming
out of one location the
audit function can be
carried out much easier
than in the past.”
The committees
include representatives
from each of the coun-
cils, as well as NGOs
and state and federal
government agencies.
“There’s money
on the table to enable
change to happen to
make local government
more resilient,” Mr
Williams said.
The next commit-
tee meeting will be
held in Bourke in early
December.
John Williams
Attorney-General George
Brandis is being urged to do
more to protect domestic vio-
lence victims in court.
Independent MP Cathy
McGowan has asked parliament
to scrap a provision that allows
self-represented violent offend-
ers to cross-examine their vic-
tims.
Moving a motion on Monday,
Ms McGowan called on the gov-
ernment to urgently legislate to
protect victims giving evidence
in court.
The practice was exposing
already traumatised and broken
victims to further pain.
“Imagine the circumstance
when a victim of such violence
finally gets out of that situation
... is exposed to further violence
by their abuser in the family
court system,” she said.
Liberal MP Karen McNamara
backed the motion, saying it was
“unacceptable” for an alleged
abuser to be able to cross-exam-
ine their victim.
“There is nothing more con-
fronting than having to interact
with a victim’s perpetrator in a
formal court setting,” she said.
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MP seeks court protection for victims